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The Ladykillers

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The Ladykillers (1955)

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Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 18  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.5/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Synopsis: THE LADYKILLERS, director Alexander Mackendrick's third Ealing farce, is the final comedy produced by the famous British studio and one of its most celebrated. Like the equally applauded KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, the film is more sophisticated and blacker in tone than typically... THE LADYKILLERS, director Alexander Mackendrick's third Ealing farce, is the final comedy produced by the famous British studio and one of its most celebrated. Like the equally applauded KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, the film is more sophisticated and blacker in tone than typically lighthearted Ealing fare (such as Mackendrick's WHISKEY GALORE!). Alec Guinness stars as the superbly shifty, toothily threatening Professor Marcus, the leader of a crime ring planning a heist. Marcus rents rooms from a sweet, eccentric old lady, Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson), in her crooked London house. The professor and his co-conspirators, blowhard Major Courtney (Cecil Parker), creepily suave Louis (Herbert Lom), chubby Harry (Peter Sellers), and muscleman One-Round (Danny Green), pose as an unlikely string quartet using the rooms for rehearsal. Dodging Mrs. Wilberforce's constant interruptions, the hoods hit upon the idea to use her in the daring daylight robbery (filmed in and around London's King's Cross station). When the old girl discovers the truth, Marcus and company cannot persuade her to stay buttoned up about it and thus decide to do her in. Accompanied by a noirish cacophony of screeching trains, parrots, and little old ladies at afternoon tea, a series of unlikely events builds to the hilarious, surprising finale. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Katie Johnson, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom

Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Story: William Rose
Screenwriter: William Rose

DVD Info

Release:

Sep 10, 2002

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic - 1.66

Audio:

  • Mono - English
  • Mono - French

Additional Release Material:

  • Trailers

Interactive Features:

  • Scene Access
  • Interactive Menus

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Biographies - 1. Alec Guinness - Star

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Director Alexander Mackendrick ... reached a masterful apex of sorts with this wickedly hilarious movie's precise balance of situational comedy and stark murderous callousness.

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04/06/06
Mark Bourne
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Geoff Andrew
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07/23/05
Emanuel Levy
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worthy to see heavily maked-up Guinnes and pre-panther Sellers.

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07/08/05
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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Most of the slapstick set pieces warrant a polite smile rather than a hearty guffaw.

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05/04/05
Nick Schager
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02/23/05
Robin Clifford
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4/5

Ridiculously funny dark comedy. Guinness is having way too much fun.

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08/19/04
Widgett Walls
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05/29/04
Andy Klein
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Christopher Null
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03/16/04
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O delicioso humor negro é ainda mais ressaltado pelas ótimas performances de todo o elenco – em especial, de Guinness e Johnson.

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11/22/03
Pablo Villaca
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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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The best of the Ealing comedies.

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08/14/03
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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But with a crack ensemble, sharp script, and wry direction, The Ladykillers turns out to be a really good film even as Marcus and his crew go down in flames.

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08/12/03
Mike Pinsky
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07/30/03
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02/17/03
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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Wildly funny!

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11/24/02
Nell Minow
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a wonderfully macabre comedy

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10/13/02
James Kendrick
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